WHY KARABAKH WAS LEFT OUT

Lragir.am
11/05/10

Former adviser of the president of Armenia on national security issues
Ashot Manucharyan presented the philosophical reason because of which
Karabakh was left out of the negotiations.

"Negotiating parties, if interested in the solution of national and
state issues, prefer the parties in negotiations to be numerous
because it secures the flexibility of the system as well as it
gives possibility for a more effective policy. But if one says I am
to solve all the issues you can deal only with me, so the fewer the
negotiating parties are the better is. In this case you solve personal
and group problems, and national and state issues become subordinate",
says Manucharyan.

He says that foreign policy is the continuation of the home policy,
and hence the supremacy in the home policy is to earn money, it is
relevantly reflected in the foreign policy. In this context, Ashot
Manucharyan brought the example of Karabakh, which was left out of the
process, saying that a serious error occurred. Ashot Manucharyan says
that Armenia, unlike Azerbaijan, forgot about the issue of refugees.